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The beauty of El Paso is sometimes more obvious to outsiders than it is to people here.
Take, for example, the track team from the Mentor Academy.
The team of five professionals plus the best 14-year-old female horizontal jumper in the world, from the Paris (France, not Texas) suburb of Franconville, are late in their annual six-week camp in El Paso. This is the fourth time they've come over en masse to begin their outdoor season.
There's is a connection to El Paso through former Miner national champion high jumper and French Olympian Mickael Hanany, who lives here now.